Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cancer by Inheritance The University of Chicago's remarkable Professor Maud Slye last week did two remarkable things: 1) She autopsied her 119,185th mouse. 2) She published in the American Journal of Cancer strong evidence that susceptibility to cancer is inheritable. But the susceptibility can be bred out of a family by judicious marriage. Like light hair, it is a genetically recessive characteristic, whereas resistance to cancer is like dark hair, a dominant characteristic. Susceptibility alone probably is not enough to insure a person's developing a cancer. There must also be an external factor (a bruise...
Professor Slye's pet idea for some time has been the organization of a central bureau where all human cancer cases would be registered so that studies could be made of the cases and histories be formed of all of them for better breeding of future generations. That is, do with humans what she has done with mice. She has tried to get the American College of Surgeons to keep the records in their plant, but so far she has not been successful. She calls genetics the "last outpost of science," thinks some day people will pay the attention...
After demonstrating that susceptibility to cancer can be inherited, Professor Slye turned her attention to the specific causes of the rise of cancer in susceptible people. She says cancer is not so much a disease as it is a growth-process. She points out that whereas the highest number of human cancers occur in the digestive tract below the esophagus, the same does not hold true for beasts. Of all the mouse autopsies she has performed, about 15,000 were cancerous mice, but only about 25 had intestinal tumors. The difference probably lies in the diet. For long years...
...lately President Erskine has not even had an office at the plant. First citizen of South Bend, he left a note for his adopted son: "Russel, I can't go on any longer." Died. Hipolito Irigoyen, 85, twice president (1916-22; 1928-30) of Argentina; of a throat cancer; in Buenos Aires where he had lived a virtual prisoner since being overthrown by General Uriburu...
Died. Rose ("Rose of the Ghetto") Pastor Stokes, 53, famed U. S. radical labor leader; of cancer; in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As a child (Russian-born) she worked in U. S. sweatshops. Later, a labor reformer, she met and married James Graham Phelps Stokes, socialite philanthropist, who divorced her 20 years later. She led many a strike, received but did not serve a 10-year sentence on a Wartime espionage charge...